PERSPECTIVES

Perspectives.

Essays on how work becomes visible, and what changes when it does. Announcements appear here too, tagged News.

Forthcoming

Two essays we are writing next.

Trust Architecture

Why claims beat profiles

A profile is what a person declared once. A claim is what the work shows, with its evidence, its recency and its confidence attached — and a correction right, which is the trust mechanism a profile never had. Why capability read this way is more useful to the organization and safer for the person.

Trust Architecture

Memory without surveillance

The architectural argument, made without analogy: corporate data first, so nothing is asked of an employee before anything is offered; purpose-bound access compiled into every request; principal alignment, so the organization's agent and the person's agent cannot be the same thing wearing two hats. Why visibility and surveillance are different objects, not different intentions.